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The British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to
how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent
political, economic and technological developments have had on the
nature of media industries today. Split into two sections, this
book starts by exploring approaches to understanding contemporary
media industries through political, economic and technological
terms. The second section delves further into issues and practices
relating to individual media industries including newspapers,
magazines, film, television, music, videogames and social media.
The book adopts a political economy approach and is designed to
engage students in an accessible way with key issues around the
ownership and control of different sectors of the British media; UK
and EU government regulation of the media, including content
regulation and market/economic regulation; and the corporate
strategies employed by leading media players, such as the BBC, News
Corporation, Google and Apple. Topics are contextualised within an
increasingly international media marketplace and students will be
familiarised with concepts such as globalisation and media
imperialization. End-of-chapter exercises and case studies help
readers solidify their understanding of key concepts as they work
through the text. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate
students approaching British media industries for the first time
and will also be relevant to students undertaking introductory
courses in Media Management and Media Economics.
The British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to
how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent
political, economic and technological developments have had on the
nature of media industries today. Split into two sections, this
book starts by exploring approaches to understanding contemporary
media industries through political, economic and technological
terms. The second section delves further into issues and practices
relating to individual media industries including newspapers,
magazines, film, television, music, videogames and social media.
The book adopts a political economy approach and is designed to
engage students in an accessible way with key issues around the
ownership and control of different sectors of the British media; UK
and EU government regulation of the media, including content
regulation and market/economic regulation; and the corporate
strategies employed by leading media players, such as the BBC, News
Corporation, Google and Apple. Topics are contextualised within an
increasingly international media marketplace and students will be
familiarised with concepts such as globalisation and media
imperialization. End-of-chapter exercises and case studies help
readers solidify their understanding of key concepts as they work
through the text. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate
students approaching British media industries for the first time
and will also be relevant to students undertaking introductory
courses in Media Management and Media Economics.
The shift from traditional documentary to "factual entertainment"
television has been the subject of much debate and criticism,
particularly with regard to the representation of science. New
types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques
with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and
reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring
spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery
these programmes blur the boundaries between mainstream science and
popular beliefs. Through close analysis of programmes across a
range of sciences, this book explores these issues to see if
criticisms of such hybrid programmes as representing the "rotting
carcass of science TV" really are valid. Campbell considers if in
fact; when considered in relation to the principles, practices and
communication strategies of different sciences; these shows can be
seen to offer more complex and rich representations that construct
sciences as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.
The media are inextricable from controversy yet "controversy" is
an under-theorized term in studies of the media, even though
controversies over specific images, from "video nasties" to
snapshots from Abu Ghraib, have structured our understanding of the
media's power, seductiveness and dangers. This collection offers a
series of case studies of recent media controversies and draws on
new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of
types of image, including newspaper cartoons, advertising and
fashion photography, music videos, photojournalism, news media, art
works, hardcore porn film, anime, horror and exploitation movies,
video games, and YouTube reaction videos. In the current climate
when images appear to be increasingly controversial, it is
important that media controversies are not made the excuse for
greater censorship and the demonization of "dangerous" images and
the audiences that consume them. The case studies in this book
suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of
controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new
media landscape.
Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies,
this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to
consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might
achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and
negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.
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SunBurn (Paperback)
Arthur Vincent Campbell IV
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R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The last psychedelic novel? SUN BURN - art novel involving graphic
art from around the world interlaced with an amusing exercise in
wit and dry humor involving Porsches, French-speaking aliens, a
pipe organ, a Citroen, a master mechanic, lonely beat cop, and a
society in which no one seems to do anything (except the bar
tender). The book has no sex, no violence, and no bad language,
though it does have some French language (translated in the ample
footnotes ). 5.5 x 8.25 x 185-page paperback includes 180 art
illustrations, including 3 by author. The pump boy pumps gas at a
station that only serves Porsche turbos evidently, and the mechanic
obviously only works on other cars grudgingly. He is able to repair
intergalactic devices, a skill that serves him well in this odd mix
of 1950s science fiction and current literary pace. Great coffee
table piece and conversation starter.
For almost four hundred years, journalism has played a central role
in the evolution and development of societies across the globe, but
as we enter the 21st Century and the age of information, exactly
what journalism is, what it does, and what it means has become
increasingly problematic. Understanding journalism today requires
awareness of concepts and practices around the world, rather than
just in terms of Western notions of journalism's social role.
Information Age Journalism examines fundamental questions about
what journalism in the age of information means in an international
context. The book aims to act as both an introduction for students
and a critical examination of the dominant theories in journalism
studies. The book includes: explanation and discussion of the
contemporary "crisis" in Western journalism; examination of core
concepts in journalism studies, like new values, objectivity and
ethics, drawing on comparative examples from around the world; and,
exploration of the impact of new media technologies on established
theories and practices in journalism.
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